“Florida will completely reject fear as a way of making policies in public health. So we’re done with fear,” Ladapo said. “That’s been something that’s been, unfortunately, a centrepiece of health policy in the United States ever since the beginning of the pandemic and it’s over here. Expiration date. It’s done.”

He said approaching health policy with fear leads to bad decisions.

“We’re going to be very explicit about the differences between science and our opinions,” he said. “What’s been happening over the past year is that people have been taking the science and they’ve been mispresenting it ... it’s been unclear when the discussion about science ends and discussion about how you feel about the science and what you want people to do with the science begins.”

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